I heard Norman Podhoretz talk last night on a promotion tour for his book World War IV. Good turn out, more open minded people in San Francisco than I could have believed. It was comforting to hear a great mind thinking like me. He is much calmer in his presentation than I could be.
He raised an interesting point. Many EU countries have laws punishing Holocaust denial. But the EU has only occasionally
been on the side of Israel when Israel's neighbors are trying to
exterminate Jews again. Worst of all, the EU and Germany in particular
have been financially supporting Iran in its open determination to
pursue a new Holocaust.
I blame it on translation of the word "denial." In English to deny a fact of history is one meaning of denial and we use the same meaning to deny the intent to repeat history. To us, the Germans are in "denial" if they think a future Holocaust is not something to worry about. It is probably that the word "denial" has no present tense or future tense in German. Or maybe there is another new German word for denial about the next Holocaust the Germans are doing their best to create.